He found himself pacing, the cheap carpet of the IT department wearing thin under his relentless strides. His new desk was cluttered with wires and manuals, a stark contrast to the familiar order he'd cultivated in sales. The air in this new place felt stagnant, thick with the unspoken disdain he felt radiating towards his new boss.

His chest constricted. He imagined tearing the transfer papers to shreds, the satisfaction of making a mess. Every time the office door opened, he expected to see the smug grin of the VP who had orchestrated this entire fiasco.

"This is ridiculous," he muttered under his breath, his voice tight with an undercurrent of something volatile. He clenched his fists, struggling to keep his composure. He imagined burning down the whole building.

Emotion: mad

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.94 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 mad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.448
0.344
est0.340
🤬0.336
aggravated0.332
Suppressed:
a-0.495
de-0.485
la-0.387
H-0.344
latter-0.290